“I have all the characteristics which, according to writers on the sex interests of children, start the responses stirring in a little girl: clean-cut jaw, muscular hand, deep sonorous voice, broad shoulder voice, broad shoulder. Moreover, I am said to resemble some crooner or actor chap on whom Lo has a crush.” (45)
In this section, Humbert Humbert recalls events that transpired in a journal he once kept. In particular, he describes a lake outing with Mother Haze and Lolita. He is so set on going, mentioning it days before it actually happens, planning out his whole trip and fantasizes about slipping away with Lo, which is just incredibly disturbing. He then goes off on yet another tangent about nymphets and tries to justify his love as normality by describing Harry Edgar’s marriage to a 14-year old girl.
This section is a fine example of the perverse and disturbed nature of the narrator. By referring to writers, who I highly doubt exist, who research his kinds of interests, he tries to make his condition seem more legitimate. It’s like he’s saying, “I can’t help having these girls be all over me, and because of that, I definitely can’t help being attracted to them.” Again, his use of lustrous vernacular detracts from the fact that he is talking about attracting young girls. Humbert Humbert And again again, he makes a brief allusion to Hollywood, by stating that he resembles some actor that Lolita happens to have a crush on. What a coincidence.
Q: What has changed that no longer makes it decent to marry young girls?
Q: What has changed that no longer makes it decent to marry young girls?
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